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    QuantCon NYC 2018 Quantitative Investing Confernece - Interview Video

     Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014,... View Details

    • June 2013
    • Case

    Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
    Ken Traub is hired as CFO for American Bank Note Holographics, the market-leading security holograph company in January 1999, but discovers on his first day that the company has misstated its financials and resigns. After consulting with the company for the next... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Moral Sensibility; Earnings Management; Crime and Corruption; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • September 2019 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Gap, Inc., 2019

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In 2000, The Gap, Inc. (Gap) was the world’s largest player in specialty fashion retailing, and companies such as Inditex of Spain, H&M of Sweden, and Fast Retailing of Japan were less than a quarter of Gap’s size. But after two decades of growth, Gap’s progress... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Fast Fashion; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
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    • 07 Nov 2007
    • Op-Ed

    How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

    would be delayed. Apple's stock, although it rebounded after a strong earnings report, dropped six percent when the company announced a $200 price cut on the iPhone only 8 weeks after the product launched.... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
    • 15 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Legislating Stock Prices

    Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
    • 22 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 22, 2016

    is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Aug 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hedge Fund as Activist

    recent academic papers have found that hedge funds generate returns of over 5 percent on announcement of their involvement, suggesting that investors believe these funds will increase the value of the firms they target. In a new paper... View Details
    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
    • Research Summary

    Corporate Governance

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang

    The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

    • August 2012 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    JP Morgan Chase & the CIO Losses

    By: Clayton Rose
    On July 13, 2012, JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced a larger than expected loss for the quarter, $4.4 billion, from positions held in the Chief Investment Office (CIO), raising the total losses to $5.9 billion. Since the substantial risks in the CIO had first been... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Governance; Finance; Risk Management; Corporate Governance; Business Earnings; Accounting; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 01 Jan 2024
    • Blog Post

    Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS

    to providing you with options and support to help finance your MBA. Even as the long-term earnings of a Harvard MBA continue to increase, we continue to work on making our MBA Program affordable for all. This includes offering the largest... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

    Congress and the next president of the United States will be under pressure to make major changes to U.S. corporate tax policy, the consequences of which could have significant impact on profit and competitiveness of American companies on the global stage. (Editor's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

    Sox starting pitcher Lackey, a star performer in his eight years with the Angels. Transported from laid-back Southern California to hot-cauldron Boston, Lackey posted a mediocre earned run average of 4.40 in 2010, and a league-worst 6.41... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Categorical Processing in a Complex World

    By: Marco Sammon, Thomas Graeber and Christopher Roth
    In real-world news environments, quantitative information is rarely presented in isolation; it is characterized through qualitative comparisons with various reference levels. Company earnings, for example, are commonly compared to analyst forecasts, previous earnings,... View Details
    Keywords: Announcements; Cognition and Thinking; Communication Strategy
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    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    One thing that stuck with Pete Stavros from the dinner-table conversations of his youth was that capitalism seemed fundamentally broken for his father, who earned an hourly wage working construction. The incentive was not there for... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 20 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 20, 2008

    incentives based on valuation ratios, split announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    are the latest in a series of steps over the past decade to reduce financial barriers to enrolling in the two-year, full-time MBA Program. In the official announcement in August 2022, Dean Datar said, “We know that talent is much more... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 24

    Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 May 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: May 19, 2009

    entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    sequence of activities required to deliver high-value care. June 2021 Article The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns... View Details
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Stein & Adi Sunderam FEB 2017 | BFFS WP #010 Fed watching has become a routine business for bond market participants and the financial press. Monetary policy announcements are analyzed word by word for clues to the central bank's future... View Details